This chapter reviews three influential perspectives in research on discourse markers:
Schiffrin's discourse perspective, Fraser's pragmatic approach, and Maschler's functional …

Language contact occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages
influence one another. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and …

A continuum of language alternation phenomena is discussed which spans out between the
prototypes labelled codeswitching (CS), language mixing (LM), and fused lects (FLs), with …

Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in
Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also …

Both pidgins and creoles are assumed to have small phoneme inventories, to allow only
simple syllable structures and to lack tone, while mixed languages are assumed to either …

How do children and adults become multilingual? How do they use their languages? What
influence does being multilingual have on their identities? What is the social impact of …

I remember making a point to myself as an eight-year-old coming to live in the US for a year:
whenever you need some time to think in the midst of conversation, don't say'e--m, as they …

Bakker (2003: 129) claims that 'mixed languages' do not arise from code-switching. The
language spoken most frequently by Gurindji people between the ages of 3 and about 45 …

This volume deals with the linguistic behaviour of Egyptian academics in a specific setting:
the panel presentation-assumed to represent a discourse genre, to which speakers will …

This paper argues for a cognitive motivation behind the nonseparation of the systems of
discourse marking available to bilinguals. It produces evidence that bilingual speakers, in an …